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1999 - 2000


2001 - 2002



1999

June

  • Kakadu at risk from uranium mining.
  • Roxby drains the Great Artesian Basin.
  • Arabunna Elder seeks redress.
  • In situ leaching of uranium to contaminate water.
  • The world’s nuclear waste industry plays wit and see.
  • South Australia chosen for radioactive waste dump.

July

  • Senate Inquiry into uranium mining at Jabiluka.
  • North gives into shareholders concerned about Jabiluka.
  • Olympic-style lobbying taints UNESCO’s verdict on Kakadu.
  • Prominent scientist opposes transporting radioactive waste in Australia.
  • It’s official South Australia is the loser in the radioactive waste stakes.
  • Coober Pedy Mayor opposes radioactive waste dump in South Australia.
  • Checked your insurance policy lately?

August

  • Native title issues and electricity prices flagged by Chamber of Mines and Energy.
  • Food irradiation secretly introduced.
  • WMC profit undermined.
  • WMC has a bob each-way on greenhouse.
  • Taxpayers to pick up tab for nuclear industry’s problems.
  • Roxby workforce on decline again.

September

  • Mining wastes exposed.
  • Spot the difference.
  • Electricity for Roxby
  • ERA’s profits fall.
  • Lucas Heights reactor gets bipartisan support.

October

  • NIC releases the ROXBY REPORT.
  • ConEdison looks us over.
  • Useless water in the outback.
  • Miners get another freebie.
  • Tokaimura nuclear disaster in the tradition of Windscale, Three Mile Island and Chernobyl.
  • Western Australia bans nuclear waste dump.

November

  • Coober Pedy becomes a nuclear free zone.
  • Consumer advocate gets business from ERA.
  • AMEEF to hand out greenie points to the mining industry.
  • WMC goes quiet on the Olympic connection.
  • GPU under fire over Three Mile Island.
  • Cash for comment alive and well.
  • Mining industry to tackle land rights and environment.

December

  • Ranger a social disaster.
  • Military intelligence.
  • Nuclear power company bids for SA electricity assets.
  • Olsen opens up Yumbarra park to uranium mining.
  • The nuclear lobby in SA.
  • Olsen refuses to legislate against radioactive waste dumping in SA.
  • Where there’s smoke detectors.

2000

January

  • Roxby burns.
  • WMC destroys Arabunna camp.
  • Arabunna protest in Adelaide.
  • $350 million of Taxpayers money to ensure continued exploitation of the Great Artesian Basin.
  • X-ray screening for breast cancer dismissed as a waste of time.

February

  • Report blames WMC for fire.
  • WMC sends the wrong message.
  • Senator Minchin refuses to speak at radioactive waste conference.
  • Senator Minchin refuses to act on radioactive smoke detectors.
  • Jabiluka gets boost from the taxpayer.
  • Nuclear powers eye SA generators.
  • Japan grossly underestimated effects of nuclear accident.

March

  • Uranium mining companies prop up coalition.
  • Nuclear industry confuses The Australian.
  • Records falsified by BNFL.
  • Pangea seminar cancelled.
  • Maralinga safe at last?
  • Nuclear medicine a health hazard.
  • Incremental creep at Roxby.
  • Rio Tinto expands its uranium stock.

April

  • Nuclear waste problem solved – again.
  • Nuclear industry puts the responsibility on environmentalists.
  • Pangea denies deals with politicians.
  • Deputy Premier admits plans to import nuclear waste.
  • Germany bans fuel from BNFL.
  • Maralinga clean-up failure.
  • Whyalla makes stand against nuclear waste.
  • WMC turns off water at Marree.

May

  • Roxby waste dump expands.
  • WMC environment report ignores serious accidents.
  • WMC gets more cheap water.
  • WMC denies water to Arabunna.
  • Roxby power demand increases.
  • Greenhouse gas emissions increase at Roxby.
  • Fast-tracking assists nuclear industry.
  • Trade rules.
  • ARPANSA fails first test.
  • Port Augusta opposes nuclear waste.

June

  • Coalition politically isolated.
  • WMC director opposes moves to curb greenhouse gas emissions.
  • Senator Minchin supports nuclear waste dumping in SA.
  • Honeymoon EIS to be released on World Environment Day.
  • SA to prohibit nuclear waste dumping.
  • SA may subsidise nuclear industry.
  • Word-of-mouth to record Maralinga contamination for 24,000 years.
  • Impossible to enforce laws concerning Maralinga waste.
  • Pangea enlists EPA deputy head.
  • Bushfire destroys nuclear facility.
  • Government subsidises nuclear industry.

July

  • WMC seeks environmental status.
  • US and European taxpayers subsidise nuclear industry.
  • Roxby routinely discharges uranium into atmosphere.
  • BNFL inherits radioactive nuclear weapons factories.
  • BNFL bankrupt.
  • Nuclear industry to cash in on greenhouse.
  • Honeymoon EIS released two years after mining starts.
  • Senator Minchin adamant that nuclear dump will go wherever Federal Government wants.

August

  • Senator Minchin believes that ionising radiation is safe.
  • Senator Minchin declares that nuclear waste is safely stored.
  • Senator Minchin declares that Intermediate level nuclear waste is not suitable for shallow burial.
  • WMC reactivates Olympic connection.
  • WMC fails to evict opponents.
  • Honeymoon EIS fails to address key issues of water and waste.
  • Nuclear company claims to put environment in front.

September

  • Senior SA journalist backs the dump.
  • BP offers global energy solutions.
  • Senator Minchin contradicts himself.
  • Radiation Safety Officer reports flooding of radioactive waste store.
  • Three options identified for National Radioactive Waste Repository in SA.
  • The silly season.
  • MP supports nuclear dump for SA.
  • Heathgate follows WMC’s lead.

October

  • Expert panel supports SA dump.
  • Nuclear power company buys into SA electricity generation.
  • Plutonium to be destroyed.
  • Media botch.

November

  • Nuclear power company gets lease on high voltage power lines.
  • Torrens Island nuclear connection.
  • Nuclear industry gets stranglehold on SA electricity industry.
  • Government subsidises water fo nuclear industry.
  • BHP wants to mine uranium in the Spencer Gulf of SA.
  • Taiwan cancels nuclear power plant.

December

  • The Olsen agenda.
  • Uranium enrichment.
  • Uranium mining goes global.
  • The Kerr-McGee connection.
  • Roxby increases water and electricity consumption.

1999 - 2000


2001 - 2002



2001

January

  • The one dump party?
  • Taxpayers fund nuclear PR.
  • Acidic Honeymoon continues.
  • WMC confusion over greenhouse.
  • Senator Robert Hill claims nuclear power is clean.
  • Aboriginal women receive environment award..

Mid-January

  • WMC uranium goes underground.
  • The silver bodgie digs uranium.
  • Whyalla a nuclear free zone.
  • More doubts on mammography.
  • Woomera waste not on the level.
  • Honeymoon on hold.

February

  • Beverley mine exports uranium.
  • Nuclear industry lobbies Victorian government.
  • Depleted uranium under fire.
  • Poisonous chromium at ISL mine.
  • Election Newsletters.
  • Gunson hoping to strike it rich.

March

  • The price is wrong.
  • Nuclear free zone under attack.
  • Earthquakes and nuclear weapons.
  • Minchin dislocates nuclear waste.
  • WMC trebles its profits.
  • Nuclear cut backs in Japan.
  • SA Nuclear Free Future.

April

  • Hill delays Honeymoon.
  • Power station rundown opens door to nuclear power in SA.
  • Lofty reactor.
  • WMC chief strikes gold.
  • Wasted warnings.
  • Anti-nuke to contest Senate.

May

  • Lucas Heights in the dumps.
  • The big Australian gets bigger.
  • Roxby gets cheap electricity.
  • Vice-President flies nuclear kite.
  • Senator Minchin passes nuclear hot potato to Senator Hill.

June

  • Nuclear gives unfair greenhouse advantage.
  • USA nuclear power companies to sell electricity in SA.
  • New anti-nuke website.
  • If they could find a way to deal with nuclear waste.
  • More Maralinga secrets revealed.

July

  • WMC to cut hundreda of jobs.
  • The Economist slams nuclear power.
  • Nuclear deception in SA.
  • Mining and Aborigines.
  • New group to target Aborigines.
  • Nuclear escalation in the US.
  • Nuclear industry woos South Australians.

August

  • Fraser opposes US missile plans.
  • Uranium contaminated with plutonium.
  • More nuclear test revelations.
  • Preliminary listing of nuclear test victims.
  • Russians fall foul of nuclear tests.
  • SA uranium miners claim nuclear weapons used only in Japan.
  • Roxby under the hammer.
  • Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Maralinga and Emu.

Mid-August

  • Senator Hill supports nuclear
  • Nevada opposes nuclear waste.
  • WMC chief attacks Olsen Government.
  • WMC Director attacks privatisation.
  • Olympic Dam 24 years in the red.
  • Nuclear weapons reduction.
  • Nuclear Israel.

September

  • Roxby gears up for expansion.
  • Roxby’s future downgraded.
  • WMC profit down by 32%.
  • US nuclear power company to invest $3 billion in Australia.
  • Arabunna Elder a winner.
  • Public meeting calls for government action.
  • Radioactive waste plan flawed.

October

  • Report into violence at Beverley.
  • Strontium-90 fallout in bones.
  • Opposition to Duke Energy plutonium plant.
  • Senator Minchin expresses concern about hospital nuclear waste.

November

  • Honeymoon on hold again.
  • Health study of nuclear veterans.
  • WMC under attack from US.
  • Nuclear power taken off the map.
  • Franco Princi goes the distance.
  • Roxby burns again.
  • Nuclear industry woos community groups.
  • Nuclear waste terrorism.

December

  • Canadian company to dump nuclear waste into SA water.
  • Canadian nuclear power company moves into South Australia.
  • Nuclear power terrorism.
  • Nuclear weapons proliferation.
  • Nuclear arsenal reduction.
  • US nuclear power companies eye Victorian power station.
  • Nuclear stagnation.
  • Uranium miners get reprieve

2002

January

  • Public consulted after the event.
  • SA Government wants more community consultation.
  • WMC splits.
  • Roxby2?
  • Underground acid leaching of uranium not used in USA.
  • Is it lemon juice, is it wine, is it Coca Cola, no it’s acid leach.
  • UraniumSA flunks.

Mid-January

  • Natural contamination.
  • Natural restoration.
  • US nuclear power company largest electricity supplier in SA.
  • Nuclear lobby targets sustainable development.
  • A Clayton’s leak.

February

  • Roxby fire costs $170 million.
  • UN downgrades nuclear risk.
  • Police investigate nuclear tests.
  • Major accident at Beverley.
  • 23 leaks at Beverley.
  • Claims that Beverley pipe burst caused no risk to workers.

March

  • Lewis lobbies for leaching.
  • Beverley leak report.
  • Beverley royalty dispute.
  • Chernobyl cancers on the rise.
  • WMC blames fire on static electricity.
  • President Bush claims nuclear power produces no greenhouse gas emissions.

April

  • Nuclear Accidents Rise in UK
  • Uncertainty About Heisenberg
  • SA Mines Department Gets Blasted
  • Chernobyl cancers on the rise.
  • SA Labor Puts Federal Government on Notice
  • WMC Profits Slump
  • Nuclear Diplomacy US Style
  • North Korea Gets Subsidised Nuclear Power
  • Port Lincoln Mayor Supports Nuclear Waste Dumping in SA

May

  • UK’s $40 Billion Nuclear Waste Bill
  • Downer Turnaround
  • Nuclear Subsidy in UK
  • Woomera’s Secret Nuclear Weapons Programme
  • Japan’s Nuclear Weapons Potential
  • WMC Reportedly Sustainable
  • US Subsidises Nuclear Power in North Korea

June

  • Beverley Spills Continue
  • Roxby Misplaces Plutonium
  • "High-Level Investigation Team" Takes Risks at Beverley
  • Beverley Report Superficial
  • Highs and Lows of Nuclear Waste

July

  • Business SA a Slow Starter
  • Dirty Bomb Reappears
  • Japan Talks-up Nuclear Weapons
  • Police Actions at Beverley
  • Lucas Heights on Shaky Ground

August

  • Meltdown at Roxby
  • Roxby Uranium Halved
  • Nuclear Reactors a Source of Uranium for Nuclear Weapons
  • Signature Resources at Mt Frome
  • Downer Goes Ballistic
  • Creen Trips on Nuclear Waste

September

  • Roxby Fire Costs Insurance Industry $43 million
  • SA Government Continues to Subsidise Mining Companies
  • Public Meeting on Nuclear Waste
  • Pass the Nuclear Waste
  • Nuclear Dump Road Show
  • Rocket Range Preferred Site for Nuclear Waste Dump
  • Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics

October

  • Nuclear Israel
  • Federal Government Confused About its Dump
  • Japan Nuclear Power Company Falsifies Safety Records
  • Rann ‘Nuclear Deterrent’ Impotent
  • Ignorance on Radioactivity of Nuclear Waste
  • New Moves to Dump High-Level Nuclear Waste in Australia

Mid-October

  • US Nuclear Power Company Increases Hold on Electricity in SA
  • Honeymoon Unlicensed
  • Senate Inquiry Hears Concerns About Secrecy, Poor Regulation, and EIS Irregularities
  • Japan Bucks the Trend
  • Lucas Heights Nuclear Waste Put on Hold
  • Redmond’s Research Rings a Bell

November

  • Treble Trouble at Roxby
  • Inquiry into Uranium Mine Spills Reporting
  • Fire Cost Blowout at Roxby
  • North Korea Nuclear Weapons

December

  • PR Blitz on Nuclear Waste
  • Australian Aid to North Korea
  • Schools to get Environmental Perspective of the Nuclear Industry
  • Jory Story Short on Facts

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